Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.

'Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

2 For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

for a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 You must not eat any abominable thing.

'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

4 These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

'this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;

6 You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.

and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts — it ye do eat.

7 Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

'Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they [are] to you;

8 The pig is unclean to you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.

and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud, unclean it [is] to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

9 Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;

'This ye do eat of all that [are] in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;

10 but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.

and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.

11 All clean birds you may eat.

'Any clean bird ye do eat;

12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

and these [are] they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.

and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,

14 You must not eat any kind of raven,

and every raven after its kind;

15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the [little] owl, and the [great] owl, and the swan,

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

18 You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;

19 All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.

and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten;

20 You may eat all clean flying things.

any clean fowl ye do eat.

21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

'Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

22 You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.

'Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;

23 You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.

and thou hast eaten before Jehovah thy God, in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, so that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days.

24 If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,

'And when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it — when the place is too far off from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, when Jehovah thy God doth bless thee; —

25 you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.

then thou hast given [it] in money, and hast bound up the money in thy hand, and gone unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix;

26 There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.

and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

27 The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

As to the Levite who [is] within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years you will present all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and you will store it up within your gates;

'At the end of three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed [it] within thy gates;

29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.